I am very happy with these results, I am a little curious as to the reasons why I scored low on the GUI and also the odd marks I lost for the Documentation, General Considerations and O-O Design, as I never would have thought I would have lost marks there.

But anyway at least I passed, and I didn't have to wait very long so that�s the good thing.

I would like to thank everyone in this forum for your help, without it, the assignment would have taken considerably longer and I may even have not interpreted the instruction correctly! (Initially I wasn't planning to provide a means to allow the user of the server or client to choose a database).

Of course Jeroen is technically correct, but didn't we all post our results in this forum? I know I did. And personally I don't feel like this forum is disturbed by the "I passed" threads. On the contrary, I think it is nice to see that the people who post here finally passed their exams, so that we know that our good advice has helped them through

Maybe we should just change the rule? (Andrew: is this something you can decide?)

Frans.

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Frans Janssen
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posted Jul 04, 2005 08:26:00

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BTW James, I saw in another forum that you say you are just eleven years old. If that is true, then I think you made a truely amazing accomplishment!

On the other hand, I will have to withdraw by "beer hug" and replace it with

Originally posted by Frans Janssen: Maybe we should just change the rule? (Andrew: is this something you can decide?)

This has been discussed once or twice :roll:

Basically the rule exists for all certification forums, so we don't want to make one set of rules for SCJD and SCEA forums and one for every other SC... forum.

However there is also a tacit understanding that the forum members in SCJD and SCEA spend a considerable effort on the assignment, usually asking questions of each other and chatting to each other, so they also want to share their success. So we generally allow congratulatory messages to last for around 24 hours (give or take a few hours) before moving the thread.

Every so often these "I passed" messages generate a few questions about how parts of the assignment were handled. Those messages generally get left in this forum until the discussion dies down.

End result - Jeroen is correct, and I am not going to ask him to stop posting these comments. But I am not going to enforce the rule either.

thanks Andrew. The problem of course is that the posting volume here is low and if all threads like this are allowed to remain they'd soon swamp the forum. Moving them after a day or so is a good idea.

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posted Jul 05, 2005 00:41:00

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Hi Andrew,

That is fine with me. I think the status quo is a very acceptable situation! :-)